Synopsis

This course has been replaced with Check Point Certified Security Administration (CCSA) R77, please review the details here.

Check Point Security Administration 2013 provides an understanding of the basic concepts and skills necessary to configure Check Point Security Gateway and Management Software Blades.

During this course you will configure a Security Policy and learn about managing and monitoring a secure network, upgrading and configuring a Security Gateway and implementing a virtual private network.

Objectives

Introduction to Check Point Technology

Deployment Platforms

Introduction to the Security Policy

Monitoring Traffic and Connections

Using SmartUpdate

User Management and Authentication

Identity Awareness

Introduction to Check Point VPNs

Suitable For

Technical persons who support, install, deploy or administer Check Point Software Blades should attend this course. This could include the following:

System Administrators

Support Analysts

Security Managers

Network Engineers

Anyone seeking CCSA certification

Prerequisites

Persons attending this course should have general knowledge of TCP/IP, and working knowledge of Windows, UNIX, network technology and the internet.

Examination

This course helps prepare for CCSA exam #156-215.13. It contains 90 multiple-choice, scenario-based questions. A passing score is 70% or higher in 120 minutes. The exam is based on 80% course materials and 20% hands-on experience with Check Point products.

Students should have at least 6 months experience with Check Point products before challenging the exam.

The exam in not taken as part of the course nor it is included in the course fee.

Schedule

This course has been retired and is no longer available.

Contents

Describe Check Point's unified approach to network management, and the key elements of it

Design a distributed environment

Install the Security Gateway in a distributed environment

Perform a backup and restore the current Gateway installation from the command line

Identify critical files needed to purge or backup, import and export users and groups and add or delete administrators from the command line

Deploy Gateways using the Gaia web interface

Create and configure network, host and gateway objects

Verify SIC establishment between the Security Management Server and the Gateway using SmartDashboard

Create a basic Rule Base in SmartDashboard that includes permissions for administrative users, external services, and LAN outbound use

Configure NAT rules on Web and Gateway servers

Evaluate existing policies and optimize the rules based on current corporate requirements